empyrean

²empyrean

noun

Definition of EMPYREAN

1

a : the highest heaven or heavenly sphere in ancient and medieval cosmology usually consisting of fire or light b : the true and ultimate heavenly paradise

2

: firmament, heavens

3

: an ideal place or state

Examples of EMPYREAN

1. <ascended into the empyrean after a life filled with good deeds>
2. <most ticket buyers have no trouble envisioning the empyrean that winning the lottery would inevitably bring about>

First Known Use of EMPYREAN

circa 1610

Related to EMPYREAN

Synonyms: above, bliss, elysian fields, Elysium, heaven, kingdom come, New Jerusalem, paradise, sky, Zion (also Sion)

Antonyms: Gehenna, hell, Pandemonium, perdition

Related Words: Beulah, glory, happy hunting ground, nirvana, promised land, Valhalla; afterlife, afterworld, hereafter, otherworld

Near Antonyms: inferno; limbo, purgatory; hades, netherworld, underworld; abyss, pit

see all synonyms and antonyms

[+]more[-]hide

Rhymes with EMPYREAN

Aeschylean, Anacreon, apogean, Aramaean, Atlantean, Caribbean, Cerberean, cyclopean, Damoclean, European, Galilean, Hasmonaean, Herculean, Idumaean, Ituraean, Jacobean, kallikrein, Maccabean, Manichaean, Mycenaean, nemertean, nepenthean, panacean, perigean, Sadducean, Sisyphean, Tacitean, Tennessean, Typhoean